A Highly Selective Rasorber With Ultraminiaturized Unit Based on Interdigitated 2.5-D Parallel Resonator

Abstract

A high selectivity frequency selective rasorber (FSR) with an ultraminiaturized unit based on 2.5 dimensional (2.5-D) parallel resonator (PR), exhibiting low insertion loss passband between two absorption bands, is investigated. The lossy unit is realized by inserting a 2.5-D strip-type PR structure into the center of each side of the metal square ring and loaded with resistors connected at the four corners. The novel 2.5-D PR consists of interdigitated capacitors and strip metal wire connecting the other side of the lossy layer obtained by using metallized vias. The 2.5-D PR can effectively alleviate the congestion of the single-sided structures and achieve a high degree of miniaturization by means of tortuous extension inductance structure; as an additional feature, the values of L and C can be independently adjusted to determine the passband frequency allowing to provide additional degree of freedom to the design. An equivalent circuit model is proposed to analyze its operating principle. The dimensions of the miniaturized unit are 0.13 <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">λ</i> <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">f</sub> × 0.13 <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">λ</i> <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">f</sub> × 0.16 <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">λ</i> <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">f</sub> (being <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">λ</i> <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">f</sub> the free space wavelength at the passband). A transmission window with low insertion loss of 0.125 dB is obtained at 4.65 GHz under normal incidence. The fractional bandwidth for −10 dB reflection is about 96%. The miniaturized FSR satisfies the characteristic of polarization insensitivity (TE and TM) and angular insensitivity (up to 45°). A prototype of miniaturized FSR has been manufactured and measured, showing a reasonable agreement with simulations.